TO EVENING
by: Sappho
- HESPERUS!
Thou bringest all things home;
- All that the garish day hath scattered wide;
- The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold;
- Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.
This English translation, by William
Hyde Appleton, of 'To Evening' is reprinted from Greek Poets
in English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton. Cambridge: The
Riverside Press, 1893. |
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